According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
(noun) the act of deceiving
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dissimulation (countable and uncountable, plural dissimulations)
The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
Hiding one's feelings or intentions.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*sim`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. dissimulatio: cf. F. dissimulation.]
Definition: The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is. Bacon. Simulation is a pretense of what is not, and dissimulation a concealment of what is. Tatler.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 November 2024
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.